RAF CASPS Historic Interview | Sir Frank Whittle

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The latest RAF CAPS historic leadership-themed interview features Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle OM KBE CB FRS FRAeS in conversation with Group Captain (later Air Vice-Marshal) Marten Van Der Veen, in an interview filmed at the RAF Staff College, Bracknell in 1986.
There are very few events in history which can truly be said to have changed the path of history, one of these is surely Frank Whittle’s development of the jet engine, an innovation which ‘shrank the globe’.
Sir Frank had an inauspicious start to his RAF career when he failed basic training on medical grounds. In true RAF spirit he persevered, undertaking a rigorous training programme, and was eventually readmitted as an Aircraft Apprentice.
His potential was soon recognised and he was recommended for officer training at RAF College Cranwell - the rest is history. During the interview he discusses the monumental struggles he faced during his development of the jet engine and is engagingly frank about the subsequent impact to his health.
For anyone with an interest in aviation history, the interview is an excellent opportunity to discover the trials and tribulations experienced by an extraordinary engineer as he ushered in what has become known as the ‘Jet Age’.
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@tiamatxvxianash9202 3 года назад

What a wonderful interview. It was as if Group Captain Van Der Veen was speaking to Sir Frank Whittle as one would share with a Great Uncle at a fireside chat. Listening to the details of his life's work, one could certainly fill more than one hole in the history books on his founding principle's of jet engines. Although I am not an engineer in any sense of the word, his complete integrity of professionalism was evident throughout his storied career. The Air Ministry and RAF decisions that were made in the post-war era critically limiting leading edge technologies, simply reflected Britain's acceptance of 2nd place behind the United States. Winston Churchill wasn't kidding when he said Britain was passing the torch to the Americans. Although his inventions didn't exactly bring to Britain what he had hoped and dreamed for, Sir Frank Whittle has a secure place in history as a father of the “Jet Age.” And surely that is something Bracknell, the RAF, Britain and the aviation world can be eternally thankful for.

@bangtwister Год назад

Good stuff. There is an article on Sir Frank Whittle in this month's Professional Engineering magazine issue 6 2022.

@chrish5794 2 года назад

A British Engineering genius treated shamefully and shabbily by the establishment !!

@foxxy46213 8 месяцев назад

Always the case..those of us in this know love this man an know he's a true legend.

@hogey74 Год назад

August 2022. I found this interview while pursuing a line of inquiry about similarities I see between turbine engines and nuclear fusion. They're both easily understood and easily sketched-out concepts involving the same steps: 1. Create, contain and sustain an energetic phenomenon. 2. Derive large amounts of energy from it 3, Use that energy to power the containment and sustainment. 4. Extract useful excess energy to do other work. I suspect that there are useful lessons to be learned from Mr Whittle and the milieu in which he found himself. This interview is amazing to me in general and is a credit to all parties involved in the process from then through to me listening to his words as I potter around my house in Brisbane, Australia on a lovely winter's day in 2022. I find it interesting that : 1. Frank envisaged a great use-case that massively extended and improved an aspect of life and that side-stepped a key aspect of the common wisdom that was inhibiting interest. 2. He understood that a series of problems needed to be solved simultaneously with the deliciously annoying knowledge that the impetus for their individual developments would feed interest in the others, but would languish in the slow lane otherwise.

@nickbreen287 6 лет назад

Fantastic!

@mrrolandlawrence 3 года назад

he is very under rated. he invented the centrifugal flow jet engine because he wanted something simpler for the bumbling raf. he also conceived of the turbo prop and the turbo fan in the early 1940s as well...

@3-DtimeCosmology 5 лет назад

Amazing!

@WizardOfCheese 3 года назад

brilliant

@wankerspanker 3 года назад

Thank you for posting this. Is there any way I can get a physical copy?

@wankerspanker 3 года назад

and sorry for my lewd user name.

@maxlarock8788 Год назад

@@wankerspanker Lmao I didn't even see your username until I read this reply

@paulscousedownie 2 года назад

Poor Frank was treated horrendously over his brain child jet engine. Can you believe the government gave away his jet engine design to American company General Electric. Eventually cutting his fledgling business out of the equation completely in the U.K. with Rolls-Royce taking over his brainchild invention. Any wonder he had a serious breakdown. He was far too honest and trusting of his own government and his beloved RAF. He should of patented all his jet engine designs and resigned his commission and devoted his energies to powerjets. He’s was an honourable man taken advantage of commercially. As he said it was all the skullduggery that broke him. Sad end for such brilliant engineer I can understand why he went to live in the US after the way he was treated in Britain by the U.K. government. Where did they get that pompous superficial twit as interviewer from? Sorry to be so rude but that’s how he came across to me.

@hogey74 Год назад

Well said! But I do have some sympathy for the interviewer. He was part of that establishment and came up through it in the peace since WW2 as it became more gentrified and progressively less influenced by the kinds of people who rose to prominence in that time of need. His manner of thinking in an interview environment is clearly not that of a Graham Norton, more of someone going through a series of prepared steps. He very well might have similar thoughts to you and I in some regards but they could scarcely be on the tip of his tongue here.

@paulscousedownie Год назад

@@hogey74 yes I agree entirely in what you said. It’s all a matter of perspective. FrNk was a visionary like the Wright brothers who developed 3 axis flight control Frank was ahead of his time. The interviewer couldn’t understand Frank whittles brilliance as an engineer visionary. Let’s face the likes of the wright brothers and Frank Whittle are rare breed of individuals. They are in a way like the Issac Newton and Albert Einstein of this world. Original thinkers who are trail blazers. Ordinary mortals will never understand these men. Frank Whittle had the concept of jet engine turbines in his mind as Cranwell apprentice

@paulscousedownie Год назад

@@hogey74 Frank Whittle like the Wright Brothers were visionaries regarding aircraft flight. Frank as Cranwell apprentice had already envisioned powered compressed air turbines. Let’s face it the likes of these men who have parallels with Issac Newton and Albert Einstein. Original thinkers trail blazers in fact. Ordinary mortals don’t think like these men. These visionaries are highly focused and see things in a visual form. They only come along occasionally that’s why they make such a mark on society. Sometimes they get lost in history of time. Ordinary mortals don’t have that visionary ability within themselves. Hence they are followers as opposed to trail blazers. It’s up to us as individuals to shout from the rooftops that these were such great men! Frank Whittle is one such man!

@hogey74 Год назад

@@paulscousedownie I've only just begun but I suspect Frank had a strong feeling that it would work, plus he saw some awesome ways it could extend our capabilities.

@paulscousedownie Год назад

@@hogey74 Frank like Albert Einstein envision their concepts as young men. Frank as an RAF apprentice already knew how his gas turbine jet engine would work. Like Einstein who envisioned how light would warp space and time with both his special and general relativity. He did his best work as young man in Bern Switzerland. Frank was the same he devoted his whole life to aviation from a wee boy. He was able to rvisualise how his jet turbine would work. Thank god for these geniuses. They both changed the in physics and aviation. Frank didn’t really ever get the accolades he truly deserved . But his ideas were stolen from him which unfortunately had a profound effect on his life. Let’s be honest here wouldn’t you in same circumstances. The world is fully of commercial arse holes! The CEO of Rolls Royce was one of them,